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There are a wide range of mistakes an investor is liable to make, but there are a handful that seem to come up over and over again. In fact, inexperienced and nave investors have been making the same kind of mistakes ever since modern markets were established. To make sure you dont get chewed up by the markets as soon as you step into them, make sure youre avoiding the following blunders

Ally Invest (formerly known as TradeKing)is a low-cost online brokerage that provides extensive value to their clients. This Ally Invest review provides a high-level overview of the services they offer and how they can to help you with your investing needs.

There’s nothing better than earning a bit more money. Everything is so defined these days – we know exactly what we are spending, exactly what we are taking in – from our paycheck. This routine is safe, it’s secure – but it’s also boring. We want a bit more from life, and we should aim not to live beyond our means, but earn more money – to give us, even more, opportunities for enjoying the finer things in life. Either that, or saving up for something that is truly worth it. We can only do this by adding a bit more money to our monthly income. Not everyone has the opportunity to leap from a minimum wage job to a life-changing amount of cash, so we need to hustle, and the best way to do that? Working in our spare time.

There comes a time when credit won’t cut it and debt is deplorable! You need cold, hard cash and you need it quickly, Whether it’s to free up some liquidity for your business, pay off problematic debts, give the family an extra special Christmas or just keep your home finances stable and ticking over comfortably, we all find ourselves needing a little extra lucre for the endless parade of rainy days. Before you go looking for a second job, downloading a slew of money making apps or researching whether or not you really need both kidneys, it might be worth looking to your old possessions and sifting through for undiscovered gems.

1. Start out slowly when searching for freelance writing gigs!

Don’t make the same mistake I did when looking for freelance writing gigs. I thought I could write for multiple blogs, but lets be for real, there are only so many personal finance topics that you can create in one week before you get extremely bored.

Determine how many blogs or websites that you want to write for. Start out slowly by adding assignments one at a time. Decide how many websites you want to write for, and how many times per week or per month. Get the feeling for it and be 100% positive before you start adding more assignments to your list of things to do.

I originally signed up for a ton of websites when I first started freelance writing online. I never sacrificed the quality just so that I could fit them all in, instead I started slacking on my own blog. I now write for two personal finance blogs and for one hotel in the Caribbean. I prefer this mix the best.

Cryptocurrency trading is a relatively new way to make money in the market, especially since the prices of most cryptocurrencies have skyrocketed this year. Of course, this type of investment vehicle is risky, as prices are extremely volatile. For this reason, it’s important to create a sensible trading plan before entering the market, and above all, to follow your money management and risk management rules if you don’t want to lose your trading capital.

The world’s population is growing by the second. Thanks to modern medicine and other modern inventions, people are living longer than they ever have. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. There have been concerns from many world environmentalists about what will happen when the population grows to such a size that it can’t be sustained – but that’s a topic for another day.